Christopher Field Email & Phone Number

I serve as Director for the Office of Planning and Resilience at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Before joining government service, I worked at the intersection of science and policy for over 15 years. I developed an interdisciplinary research program on the socio-environmental dimensions of sea-level rise for my PhD at University of Connecticut and as a fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). I've also worked as a policy analyst for the U.S. Legislative Branch. Much of my past work centered on a small songbird with outsized policy implications – the Saltmarsh Sparrow – but I’ve led and collaborated on research across a wide range of topics, including climate adaptation and mitigation, interdisciplinarity, and the development of quantitative tools for decision-making. I’m passionate about effective science and policy communication to diverse audiences – especially non-specialists – through writing, speaking, and visualizations. Examples of the some of the visualizations I've created are shown on the "Science communication" page of my website: https://www.chrisfieldecology.com/science-communication

Listed skills include Ecology, Field Work, Environmental Science, Grant Writing, and 10 others.